Wednesday, April 30th 2025 at 8:00 pm – in the Sala Orchestra del Maggio – the “Maggio Aperto” kicks off, the face of the Festival that renews the numerous cooperations between the Theatre and the equally large musical realities of the Florence area.

On the program, in collaboration with the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, an evening entirely dedicated to the sound of the fortepiano and the compositions of Fryderyk Chopin.

Soloist on the fortepiano Ingrid Fliter.

Florence, April 28th, 2025 - The new series of Maggio Aperto events is starting, the cycle of shows that bring the Teatro del Maggio and its Festival closer to the world of the varied musical realities of the Florentine territory. These events will take place from April 30th to June 13th, on the threshold of the Theater's Summer Season.

Wednesday, April 30th at 8 pm, an interesting concert for fortepiano, in co-production with the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, entirely dedicated to the compositions of Fryderyk Chopin; the protagonist of the evening is Ingrid Fliter, the concert is scheduled in the Sala Orchestra of the Theater.

The collaboration with the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori is therefore renewed, which will be the protagonist during the Maggio Aperto on three other different occasions: on the 7th with Giulio Biddau, on the 14th with Yoko Kikuchi and on May 22nd with Jun Ju, at 8 pm, again in the Sala Orchestra of the Theater.

Ingrid Fliter, winner of the prestigious 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, is one of the very few pianists – and the only woman – to have received this honor. Her career has been divided between North America and Europe. In Europe she has performed in Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Salzburg and Cologne, appearing at festivals such as La Roque d’Anthéron and the Prague Autumn Festival. Recent European engagements include concerts with the Monte Carlo, Osaka, Helsinki and Stockholm Philharmonics; the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony and the Proms in London; the Danish Radio Symphony and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, as well as numerous recitals in Paris, Barcelona, ​​Milan, Lisbon and London’s Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall. In Asia she has performed with the Israel and Osaka Philharmonics, at the World Pianist Series in Tokyo, the International Piano Series in Singapore and has toured extensively in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

The program is entirely dedicated to Chopin's compositions: the opening is the Mazurka op. 6 no. 1 in F sharp minor, followed by the Mazurka op. 6 no. 4 in E flat minor, followed by the Mazurka op. 7 no. 1 in B flat major, the Mazurka op. 67 no. 4 (WN60) in A minor, the Mazurka op. 59 no. 2 in A flat major, the Mazurka op. 59 no. 3 in F sharp minor, the Mazurka op. 63 no. 3 in C sharp minor and the Nocturne op. 9 no. 3 in B major and the Nocturne op. 48 no. 2 in F sharp minor. The evening closes with the Sonata op. 58 in B minor.

The collaboration with the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, which is renewed ten years after the first collaboration, is an important way to give ‘voice’ to an instrument like the fortepiano: the root of the piano, capable of returning a range of sounds that favor the understanding of the compositional process and indicate the transformation of musical aesthetics over the last two hundred years.

With the concert on April 30, the doors of the Sala Orchestra del Maggio will also reopen, a way for the public to enjoy its formidable acoustics and structure.